GUEST POST: A Neuroscientific Perspective on Understanding and Managing Stress Stress significantly impacts university students, affecting their mental
and physical health. There has been a constant rise of mental illnesses
reports in UK Universities over the last decade (1) – linked to high
academic demands, cost of living and other financial pressures, and social
challenges…
https://www.learningscientists.org/blog/2025/5/9-1

Digest #179: Combating Summer Learning Loss For those of us in North America, summer is coming! Whether you have two
weeks or almost two months left, the warmer weather and growing plants are
a regular reminder that we’re getting closer every day. Summer break is
often fun for kids and can give educators …
https://www.learningscientists.....org/blog/2025/5/1/d

Improving Multiple-Choice Retrieval Practice Today I review a series of experiments that extends previous research by
having students provide justifications for their MC answers. As in other
techniques for retrieval, answer justification has the potential to
increase understanding and retention through elaborative retrieval…
https://www.learningscientists.....org/blog/2025/4/24-

Retrieval Practice Improves Learning, But Will it Help ALL of My Students? More Experimental Evidence In the first year that our blog was created—2016—I wrote a piece titled,
Retrieval Practice Improves Learning, but Will it Help ALL of my Students?
In this piece, I covered an experiment conducted by Pooja Agarwal and
colleagues (1) about the benefits …
https://www.learningscientists.org/blog/2025/4/17

Guide to the Turing Scheme The Turing Scheme could help fund your dreams of working or studying abroad.
https://www.savethestudent.org..../student-finance/tur